Chapter: Chapter 249
Opening her eyes, the first thing she saw was a vast expanse of white: white walls, a white ceiling, and the pungent smell of disinfectant.
The black-haired girl’s eyes darted around in confusion, her mind, still a fog, struggling to piece together what was happening.
Finally, after ten minutes of warming up, she managed to recall some fragmented memories.
Monsters, terrifying monsters. She and that annoying guy had gone to defeat one.
“What a loss,” the girl muttered, pressing a hand to her head.
“I’m so sorry for dragging you into all this,” a faint voice drifted from beside her.
Startled, the girl looked up, surprised that she hadn’t noticed the white-haired girl, who was wrapped up like a mummy, lying on the bed next to her.
“Pfft, hahaha, you look so funny like this!” a silver bell-like laugh echoed through the small room.
The white-haired girl didn’t show any signs of displeasure. She simply gazed at the black-haired girl with a doting look that made the latter quite uncomfortable.
“That look of yours is weird, please don’t look at me like that,” the girl said, hugging herself.
The girl’s eyes flickered, a look of lingering amusement crossing her face. “But a few days ago, you were so proactive…”
Before the girl could finish her sentence, her face flushed crimson. “Stop, stop, forget about that, forget it!”
Watching the red-faced girl, the white-haired girl chuckled, showing no hint of her current state as an injured person swaddled like a mummy. “Not a chance! I’ll remember this forever, I’ll never forget it.”
“Hey, are you looking for a fight?” the girl immediately tried to take advantage of the situation.
But before she could act on her intentions, the closed door was pushed open from the outside. A beautiful girl with green hair and pointed ears entered, carrying a clipboard. She wore a slightly embarrassed expression. “Your Majesty Leticia, it’s best if you avoid any strenuous movements right now. Your body hasn’t fully recovered from exhaustion.”
Hearing this, Leticia had no choice but to obediently abandon her plan to take advantage of Bai Ling’s inability to move freely.
Checking her own body, Leticia knew the elf maiden was telling the truth. Her body was indeed still weak, but the good news was that her mental energy had recovered quite well.
“How long have I been asleep? A week?”
“Only three days,” the elf maiden held up three fingers, indicating that Leticia’s slumber had only lasted for three days. “If you had really slept for a week, the lady next to you would probably be able to walk by now.”
Leticia looked at Bai Ling in surprise. She could walk in a week?
Was her recovery rate a bit excessive?
“Allow me to introduce myself, my name is Qian Lin. As you can see, I’m an elf, currently assigned as medical personnel to the Divine Throne,” the elf maiden said, pointing to herself. “I’ll be in charge of both of your recoveries.”
“If you need anything, you can press the small button by your bed to call me. Well, now that you’re awake, my task is mostly complete,” Qian Lin yawned, revealing prominent dark circles under her eyes. “Finally, I can get some proper sleep.”
No longer would she be threatened by that terrifying woman with a knife to her throat every night, demanding to know when Leticia would wake up.
Qian Lin closed the door, and the next moment, Deng Li emerged from the darkness in the corner.
“Your Majesty!”
“You didn’t tell Kira about my situation, did you?” As soon as she saw Deng Li, Leticia immediately asked the most important question.
If Kira found out about her condition, she had no doubt that her sister would never allow her to leave the house again.
Therefore, this matter absolutely, absolutely could not be known to Kira.
Deng Li remained silent.
Leticia also fell silent.
From this reaction, she could probably guess whether Deng Li had told Kira about her.
It was likely that an enraged Kira would arrive soon to drag her back to the demon realm and lock her up.
“Um, while there’s still time, tell Kira I’m awake and that she doesn’t need to worry,” Leticia said, covering her face. “Tell her I’ll be back as soon as I recover.”
“Yes!”
Deng Li hurried off to carry out Leticia’s orders. The room was once again left with only Leticia and Bai Ling.
After a period of silence so awkward it could make one want to dig a hole in the floor, Bai Ling broke the quiet first. “Thank you for this time.”
If not for Leticia, she might be dead by now.
The monster’s attack had been too sudden, and at the time, she had only managed to shove Leticia out of the way.
“Tch, just a casual ‘thank you’?” Leticia snorted. “Thinking about it now, I regret it. It would have been better if you had died. Then I would have been the most powerful person in this world.”
“Then why did you save me?” Bai Ling’s lips curved into a smile. No matter what Leticia said now, she had saved her back then, hadn’t she?
A life-saving debt.
Leticia glared at Bai Ling and muttered in a self-deprecating way, “I didn’t want to see you die.”
“Eh? I didn’t hear you clearly, say it again, say it again,” Bai Ling’s eyes widened in surprise. She looked at the blushing black-haired girl, wondering if she had misheard.
Could those words really come from Leticia’s mouth?
Was this Leticia perhaps an imposter?
“I said, I don’t want to see you die, die in front of me, alright!” Leticia glared at Bai Ling angrily, shouting with all her might.
Hearing this, Bai Ling, who was usually ‘eloquent,’ was momentarily speechless.
She was surprised by Leticia’s candor and wondered if Leticia had hit her head during the previous battle.
But her silence didn’t stop Leticia’s rambling. “You only know how to kill people, you always have a poker face, you really think you’re someone important, your taste in clothes is terrible, you can’t even cook…”
“I can cook!” Bai Ling quickly interjected. Did she really have that many flaws?
Clearly, her expressions had become much more varied.
“Heh, don’t interrupt me right now, okay?” Leticia shot Bai Ling an exasperated glare.
“Oh.”
…
“After you’re healed, what are your plans?” After Leticia had vented her emotions, Bai Ling tentatively asked.
“Sigh, I’m going back,” Leticia shook her head. “Kira already knows I got injured outside again. If I don’t go back, that brat will definitely come and drag me back.”
Besides, after such a fierce battle, she also wanted to rest for a while.
Being with Bai Ling, as the ancestors would say, even if they didn’t actively seek trouble, trouble would naturally find them.
This time it was a Pseudo-God level monster. Next time, who knows, maybe they’d encounter a True God.
Fighting a single monster almost got them killed. What hope would there be against a True God? They’d be sure to be destroyed.
She really didn’t know how weak the Mist God they encountered at the beginning was, to be defeated by the two of them. It was truly a disgrace to gods.
“That’s true, Xiaoya’s school is having a parent-teacher conference, and I should go home to accompany Xiaoya.” Bai Ling nodded. “By the way, Xiaoya kept mentioning Kira before I left…”
“I’ve already made arrangements. Once I get back, I’ll have Kira come over to play with Xiaoya for a few days. Kira has been busy for so long, it’s time to give her a break.” As a sister who cared so much about her younger sister, how could Leticia watch her cute sister be buried under such heavy work?
And so, after Qi Lin’s zero-zero-seven for so many years, Leticia finally decided to give Kira a break. What a good sister she was.
Leticia believed Kira would surely be very grateful in her heart, her face blooming with a smile as if she truly believed her decision was a good one.
“Don’t you think this is a bit… petty?” Bai Ling mercilessly exposed Leticia.
“Shut up!” Leticia immediately glared at Bai Ling. “Is this how you treat someone who saved your life? You are forbidden to contradict me from now on, understand?”
“Understood.” Leticia’s expression immediately turned serious, but after saying these two words, her expression returned to its usual state.
“After the parent-teacher conference, there’s the school open house. The school is also organizing a cultural performance, and Xiaoya has prepared a program. Don’t you really want to go and see it?”
Cultural performance, Leticia wasn’t really interested. What kind of show could a bunch of kids put on? At most, they’d sing and dance, nothing worth watching.
Compared to dealing with her angry sister, Leticia felt it was better to obediently return to the demon realm and take on her responsibilities as Demon King.
“No, if I delay any longer, Kira might just twist my head off.”
“Then, how about I try to reason with Kira?” Miss Bai said with a smile to Leticia.
“Forget it, you look like this, you have no persuasive power at all.” Leticia glanced at Bai Ling, who was dressed in a limited-edition white mummy outfit, and shook her head in disdain.
At most, her own complexion was a bit off, but Bai Ling looked close to death.
If such a Bai Ling were to try and persuade Kira, it might have the opposite effect.
“There’s plenty of time in the future, plenty of time. If worse comes to worst, we can find another time to get together,” Leticia said, swaying her head. “By the way, is the dinner at the hospital good? I’m a bit hungry.”
…
Demon Realm, Demon King’s Palace.
The black-haired girl in the black princess dress stared gloomily at the slip of paper in her hand. Dense black energy swirled behind her, causing the temperature in the palace to drop to freezing point.
“Have Miss Xue Er come to me. Everyone else leave.” Crumpling the paper into a small ball, she pulverized it into dust with magic, Kira said in a low voice.
Her voice was icy cold, carrying a palpable anger that anyone could perceive.
The princess was angry.
The servants attending to her in the palace immediately understood the situation and quickly exited the palace, leaving Kira with her own space.
Bang!
Her small fist slammed heavily onto the table. Kira gritted her teeth, wanting to curse her disobedient sister fiercely.
But the words caught in her throat were swallowed back down by herself.
She could understand her sister’s choices, but she was still very angry, angry that her sister didn’t cherish her own body at all.
“Your Highness, you were looking for me?” After a moment, Xue Er rushed into the palace.
Seeing Kira sulking in the chair, Xue Er felt a surge of confusion. What could have happened to make Kira wear such an expression?
Did her subordinates mess up?
That was unlikely, or they wouldn’t have called her.
Could it be related to her, something that would make Kira unhappy… could it be about His Majesty?
“My sister got injured in the human world again,” Kira said to Xue Er in a low voice.
As expected, Xue Er nodded thoughtfully.
However, why would His Majesty get injured? His Majesty had only gone out with Miss Bai for a vacation this time. Even if something happened, Miss Bai should have been able to handle it, right?
“What happened?”
“A powerful monster revived in the human world. My sister and Sister Bai went to help deal with it, and then, my sister overexerted herself to save Sister Bai,” Kira explained the general course of events briefly.
So it was to save Miss Bai. Xue Er’s expression became one of understanding. “Perhaps, this is not a bad thing.”
“I know, but my sister is injured, and it hasn’t been long since her last injury!” Kira slammed the table. Of course, she knew that in terms of the outcome, the demon race did not suffer any losses this time, but in her heart, her sister was the most important.
“It’s too late to say anything now that it has happened. Fortunately, His Majesty is not in serious danger, isn’t that right?” Xue Er said with a smile.
As for why she knew Leticia was not in serious danger?
If Leticia were in serious danger, Kira wouldn’t be sitting here calmly being angry.
“Phew, Sister Xue Er, can you watch over the demon race for me for a while?” Kira looked into Xue Er’s eyes and made her request. “I’m going to see my sister.”
Xue Er’s expression stiffened. This was supposed to be what she said, wasn’t it?
As Leticia’s personal maid, it was clearly her role to go and care for Leticia at this time. How could Kira have taken the initiative?
“Your Highness, shouldn’t we first…”
“Sister Xue Er, I believe in you!” But Kira jumped down from the chair and ran to Xue Er’s side, patting her shoulder. “I’m going to bring my sister back right now.”
“Eh, you’re not going to pack any luggage…”
“I’m not packing. I can’t wait!”
